How to Split a PDF or Extract Specific Pages

Splitting a PDF means taking some of its pages and saving them as a new document. It is the fix for sending one chapter instead of a whole report, sharing a single invoice from a batch, or removing a page that should not be there.

Step 1: Open the PDF in the split tool

Drop the file onto the upload area or click Choose file. The page count appears once it has been read; you will need it to write ranges.

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Step 2: Choose what to extract

Extract pages lets you type exactly which pages you want:

• 5 – just page 5
• 2-6 – pages 2 to 6
• 8- – page 8 to the end (and -3 means 1 to 3)
• 1-3, 5, 8- – three separate parts

Every page separately creates one PDF per page, handy for scanned batches where each page is a separate document.

Step 3: One file or several?

With Combine into one PDF off, each range becomes its own file (report-pages-1-3.pdf, report-page-5.pdf, …). With it on, all selected pages go into a single document in the order you typed. Use the combined mode to remove pages: list everything except the unwanted ones.

Step 4: Extract and download

Click Extract pages. Download files individually or grab them all as a zip. The status line before you click tells you exactly how many files and pages you will get, so mistakes in the ranges are visible early.

Tips

• Page numbers are physical positions, starting at 1, not the numbers printed on the pages.
• To reorder pages, split them into single files and merge them back in the new order with Merge PDF.
• Keep the original. Splitting never modifies it, but a copy is cheap insurance.